I have redrawn my Venn Diagram, including @Raymond and @tim wood's suggestions, and using animals, etc rather than Ayes, etc. The solution is still D....
I agree that the left hand drawing is not correct for "our" world, where i) all mammals are animals (all B's are A's) ii) all cats are mammals (all C'...
@TonesInDeepFreeze gets to the heart of the matter. Personally, trying to solve in words would make my head explode, so I normally have to resort to d...
I am afraid the image is not from an "authoritative" source. I used Microsoft "Paint". For a few dollars a year one can subscribe to the Forum and be ...
Physicalism Yes. Physicalism is sometimes known as ‘materialism’. Materialists historically held that everything was matter. But physics itself has sh...
Don't think I agree. A physical world exists independently of us I agree with Critical Realism in a belief in Ontological Realism, that a physical rea...
I agree that the parts of what we think of as an apple do physically exist in the world. But the parts will still physically exist whether or not rela...
What are objects The whole is the relationship between its parts An object such as an apple is the relationship between its parts The parts of an an a...
Are extra-spectral colours "objects in the world" ? Taking magenta as an example of an extra-spectral colour To my understanding, in our eyes we have ...
Abstract nouns are part of physicalism If I hear the word "whiteness", in my mind I link the physical word "whiteness" with several physical objects i...
Bertrand Russell wrote "That which many different thoughts of whiteness have in common is their object, and this object is different from all of them"...
Some scholars think that the passage "In the beginning was the word (logos) " is more accurately translated "In the beginning was logic" Logic is intr...
Logic is not an invention of the mind but a discovery in the world Independent of the mind, logic exists in the world. The world is a logical place, i...
A computer can deal with the logic of 'is', 'is not' and so on without the need of a mind. A computer is an example of what a physical brain can achie...
Limiting myself to Russell's quoted text. In our minds are concepts such as whiteness, trees, government, two, time, space, etc. In what sense are con...
Aristotle universals are incorporeal and exist only where they are instantiated in material things. If relations between objects have an ontological e...
I would not say that "I am what thoughts and feelings have in common". I would say that "I am my subjective experiences. My subjective experiences inc...
I can have the subjective experience of thought, and can have the subjective experience of feeling. My subjective experiences can include both thought...
Descartes "cogito, ergo sum" uses thought to prove his existence. I observe an apple, and think about it. I doubt the reality of the apple. I doubt th...
True. I may think about the apple on the table, and I may have feelings of hope, despair and sadness. Replacing "I am my thoughts" by "I am my subject...
Taking the thread to be about substance dualism (the idea that the mind is a different substance to the brain), the question is what can we ever know ...
I agree that my thoughts can be directed at another person's mind, as my thoughts can be directed at the table in front of, but this is not the same a...
If I touched a hot stove with my bare hand, I would know my subjective experience. If I see someone touch a hot stove with their bare hand and instant...
I agree that "I am my mind". If I want to understand the nature of the mind, I cannot look at the minds of others, which will forever be closed to me,...
The problem with words. Yes, if I perceive mental content, I would say "I am conscious of the mental content", rather than "my mind is conscious of th...
Would not disagree. If dualism is true, then the mind is a different substance to the brain. If monism is true, then the mind is a synonym for the bra...
Trying to pull these ideas together. Our understanding of the mind-brain relationship is ultimately limited by language Using language, I can say "I f...
The mind exists only as a part of language, not as part of the world The gist of the comments are about how the mind and brain interact, inferring tha...
The Binding Problem - the unity of consciousness Relevant sentences about dualism from SEP - Dualism Discussion about dualism, therefore, tends to sta...
If dualism is true, is science wrong ? Questions about the mind-body problem How does the mind as a whole emerge from disparate parts, the neurons tha...
The correspondence between mental states and brain states A computer may be programmed to give a response when input blue light. A brain may respond w...
Yes, Lewis is saying that if dualism was true, then the foundation of science would be shown to be false. However, Lewis is also saying that dualism i...
Does this lead to the requirement (definition) that "an undergraduate in writing a philosophy essay is not expected to develop new philosophical ideas...
As someone searching for what makes an A, from what you say, in addition to being well written (something that can be learnt through careful study) th...
As far as I know, never having taught, but from personal experience (in getting B's). The Professor is not looking for the student to say something ne...
The person marking the undergraduate essay looking to award an A should not be looking for the student's original philosophical ideas but rather the s...
As far as I know, as regards an undergraduate's philosophy essay, a well-written essay about philosophically interesting ideas will be marked down, wh...
Assuming it is an essay by an undergraduate. Be aware that "It says something philosophically interesting" is definitely not about any interesting phi...
Wittgenstein's beetle in a box argument against the idea that philosophy is futile It may well be that a person's inherent beliefs are arbitrary, base...
I am in front of a glass of water. My throat feels dry. I can either pick up the glass of water or not pick up the glass of water. My brain "knows" th...
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